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Oprah Winfrey - In 1999 the television personality co-taught a second-year M.B.A. course on 'Dynamics of Leaderships' at Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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Angelina Jolie - In 2017, the actress became a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and contributed to a postgraduate degree program at the university's Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

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Alec Baldwin - Summer school is not typically a place students want to be...unless the class you are enrolled in is being taught by none other than Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin. In the summer of 2002 he taught a theater class at Southampton University.

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Matthew McConaughey - The A-list actor has been a visiting instructor at the University of Texas in Austin, and spent Fall 2019 teaching a film production course.

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Tyra Banks - In 2017, this top model taught at Stanford University as a guest lecturer on personal branding.

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Wyclef Jean - During the 2010-2011 academic year, the musician taught at Brown University in the Africana Studies department.

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Spike Lee - In 1991 the famous director taught a course on filmmaking at Harvard. Since 1993 he's been teaching in the Graduate Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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Kal Penn - In 2007 the actor was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program.

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Questlove - Someone else who teaches at New York University is this The Roots band member. He's an adjunct instructor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. He has also taught courses at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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Jesse Ventura - In 2004, this former wrestler became a visiting fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. 

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Al Gore - This former US vice-president has served as a visiting professor at many schools including:  Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Tony Blair - The former UK Prime Minister was at Yale during the 2008-2009 academic year, where he worked with the divinity and management schools to develop the Yale Faith and Globalization Seminar.

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Jimmy Carter - Former US president Jimmy Carter also pursued a career in higher learning. Following his tenure as president, he became a University Distinguished Professor at Emory University.

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Chris Webber - The former NBA star taught a master’s course on sports, race, and society at Wake Forest University.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates - The 'Black Panther' comic writer previously taught writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later he became the journalist-in-residence at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Finally in 2017 he became Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

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Bun B -

This rapper was invited to teach a course at Rice University in 2011 on hip-hop culture and religion. Since then he has become a Distinguished Lecturer, and continues to teach at the school a few days a week.

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Rita Dove - The American poet has been teaching in the English department of the University of Virginia since 1989. 

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Noam Chomsky - The American linguist and author is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor at the University of Arizona.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. - The 'Finding Your Roots' host is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has also taught English and Afro-American studies at Yale, and had stints at Cornell and Duke.

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Junot Díaz - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Cornel West -

The American philosopher and author has held professorships at several higher learning institutions including: Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Pepperdine University, Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Paris.

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Faith Ringgold -

Between 1987 to 2002, the artist and children's book author taught art at the University of California, San Diego.

Now, discover other celebrities who have published children's books!

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